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Occupy Oakland: Mayor Quan Issues Contrite Statement after Police Crackdown

Seeded on Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:53 PM EDT (The San Francisco Chronicle)

I want to express our deepest concern for all of those who were injured last night, and we are committed to ensuring this does not happen again.

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Banks' wrongs too numerous to comprehend

Seeded on Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:37 AM EDT (McClatchy)

The details of the transaction are complicated.

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President BUSH withdraws troops from Iraq

Seeded on Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:19 PM EDT ()

Article 24 1. All the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi territory nolater than December 31, 2011.

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Skydiving Sex? Bakersfield Couple Starts A New Mile High Club

Seeded on Thu Oct 13, 2011 11:57 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)

The Mile High Club has just been one-upped.

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The Reign of the One Percenters

Seeded on Sun Oct 2, 2011 11:47 PM EDT ()

Finance as practiced on Wall Street, says Paul Woolley, is “like a cancer.” There is only maximization of short-term profit in these “financial services”—they are services only in the sense of the vampire at a vein.

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What Happens If The Tea Party Wins

Seeded on Sat Sep 17, 2011 12:59 AM EDT (Think Progress)

As an alternative, Tea Partiers embraced tentherism, the belief that everything from Social Security to Medicare to child labor laws to the Affordable Care Act violates the Constitution.

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General Electric's Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether

Seeded on Fri Mar 25, 2011 8:05 PM EDT (The New York Times)

The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States. Its American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion.

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Is Barack Obama Stupid?

Seeded on Sat Dec 4, 2010 9:34 PM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)

Another 14% said they don't want tax cuts for anybody, including the top bracket. So, the reality is that an overwhelming 67% of the country don't want tax cuts for the rich (including 52% of Republican voters!).

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Unified by hatred of Obama, GOP still seeks a challenger

Seeded on Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:33 AM EDT (McClatchy)

Barbour also urged the conservatives not to tear themselves apart between tea party activists and Republicans. "We cannot let ourselves be torn apart by the idea of purity," he said.

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A Surge of Hate

Seeded on Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:27 AM EDT (Newsweek)

Some talk-show hosts see the risk of going too far. Bill O'Reilly, the top-rated talker on Fox News, interviewed Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers in February and treated him coolly. After the interview O'Reilly said to his audience, "We have a system to uphold the Constitution.

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Romney Wins SRLC Straw Poll By 1 Vote. Sarah Palin... Didn't

Seeded on Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:56 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

Tied for third... oh my.

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Economy Will Get a Boost from Health Care Overhaul

Seeded on Sun Mar 28, 2010 4:23 PM EDT (McClatchy)

Health reform, signed into law by President Barack Obama on Tuesday, will change that as key improvements are phased in over the next four years.

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Spaceship Enterprise First Flight

Seeded on Sat Mar 27, 2010 4:41 PM EDT ()

Virgin Galactic's Enterprise made it's maiden, captive flight on Monday.

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GOP eventually will praise health reform bill

Seeded on Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:57 PM EDT (McClatchy)

Perhaps Sen.

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Most Americans want health care reform

Seeded on Sat Mar 13, 2010 4:58 PM EST (The Washington Post)

Let's take the CNN poll from early January -- the most negative independent poll on health care and one that predated President Obama's proposal. Only 40 percent supported the bills passed by Congress, while 57 percent opposed them.

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Pilots show support for controller Glenn Duffy, who let his 2 kids direct traffic at Kennedy Airport

Seeded on Sat Mar 6, 2010 2:42 PM EST (NY Daily News)

"Thoughts going out to your co-worker there," a Delta pilot departing Kennedy Airport said to a flight controller Thursday night, according to a recording captured on the Web site Liveatc.net. "I think it's BS what he's going through."

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Karl Rove's Perversions of History, And His Media Enablers

Seeded on Thu Mar 4, 2010 8:55 PM EST (The Huffington Post)

In his new memoir, Karl Rove does what he does best. To explain away one lie, he comes up with another. He claims that Bush probably would not have invaded Iraq had he known there were no weapons of mass destruction there.

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Daniella Sarahyba - 2010 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit

Seeded on Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:06 PM EST (CNN)

Summary? Hell, how do I summarize this.....

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More war, more marble markers at West Point

Seeded on Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:02 PM EST (McClatchy)

So the war that should have ended in 2003 will only grow larger, deadlier and more costly as 2010 dawns.

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The Case Against Global Warming and How Believers Respond - WSJ.com

Seeded on Tue Dec 15, 2009 8:53 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)

WHAT THE SKEPTICS SAY: There is no consensus that human-caused warming is creating a disastrous rise in global temperatures. The causes of 20th-century warming are in sharp dispute among scientists, as is the amount of warming expected in the future.

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N. Kansas City Council drops Christian Lord's Prayer from meetings

Seeded on Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:24 PM EST ()

Council no longer says Christian prayer after organization requests immediate removal from meetings Bowed heads and folded hands are no longer part of North Kansas City Council meetings.

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Afghan Scouts

Seeded on Mon Nov 30, 2009 5:57 PM EST (msnbc.com)

It's programs like this that will eventually lead the Afghans out of the dark ages. An interesting read.

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It's hard to get into the holiday spirit. Joe Galloway

Seeded on Sun Nov 29, 2009 12:21 AM EST (McClatchy)

Health care reform — which was supposed to be passed and signed into law by last August — isn't even halfway done yet and will likely be pushed off to next year.

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Welcome to 2012 Draft Sarah Palin Committee

Seeded on Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:23 PM EST ()

Welcome to the 2012 Draft Sarah Committee website. We are a diverse committee of Americans from across America who have been inspired by Governor Sarah Palin and feel she should be the next President of the United States.

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Obama and Health Care, ABC News Washington Post Poll

Seeded on Mon Oct 19, 2009 7:51 PM EDT (ABC News)

Indeed, Americans by 51-37 percent in this latest ABC News/Washington Post poll say they'd rather see a plan pass Congress without Republican support, if it includes a public option based on affordability, than with Republican backing but no such element.

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